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...seems in sight. Student organizers at several universities were rounding up participants for an assault on the largest streaking record (see box). At Stanford University, preparations were being made for the longest streak, an 18-mile jaunt between Palo Alto and San Jose. At the University of Pennsylvania, students staged an undressed rehearsal for a fanciful "streak for impeachment" around the White House. Even President Nixon got into the spirit of things: when Reporter Sarah McClendon commented that his hair was graying at the temples, Nixon quipped, "They call that streaking...
...have only three words, check and mate." He lost. Or Paul Morphy, the American who was acknowledged as the world's best player during a career of only a year and a half in the 1850s, and who died insane, a hater of the game. And the Cuban Jose Raul Capablanca, arguably the greatest player of all time. His government gave him a permanent position as a roving diplomat, transferring him to a post in whatever city his next tournament was scheduled...
Cyrano de Bergerac, starring Jose Ferrer, Friday and Saturday, March...
Cyrano de Bergerac (1950) includes Jose Ferrer in a captivatingly romantic performance, perfectly suited to Edmond Rostand's lightweight romantic play. Eating half a macaroon, playing with his swords, swaggering about town, Ferrer is always as flamboyant as the part demands. Michael Gordon's direction is nothing special, and the rest of the cast is mediocre in this one-man show...
...personal obligation to succeed; so he will." Adds Costa Rica's President Jose Figueres: "I've come to place my hope in great men, and Kissinger is one of them...